The espionage to Sánchez and Robles, parallel to the crisis with Rabat and between denunciations of other countries against Morocco

The espionage on the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, revealed this Monday by La Moncloa, occurred just a year ago, between May and June 2021. As detailed by the Executive, through From the Pegasus program, 2.6 gigabytes and 130 megabytes were extracted from Sánchez's phone and 9 megabytes from Robles's.

What was happening in our country in May and June 2021?

At that time, politics in Spain crossed two axes, mainly.

On the one hand, the preparation of the pardons for the

leaders , carried out weeks later, in June 2021. On the other hand, our country was in the worst moments of the diplomatic crisis with Morocco unleashed by the entry into Spain of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, to be treated for coronavirus in a hospital in Logroño.

Specifically, on May 17, 2021, there was a massive illegal entry of thousands of people swimming into Ceuta after Morocco opened the Tarajal and Benzú border crossings, which led to an avalanche of more than 10,000 people that overwhelmed the city. autonomous and forced the Army to intervene in the area to resolve the chaos generated in the worst migration crisis experienced to date in Ceuta.

Weeks earlier, on April 24, and as a result of the first throes of the crisis unleashed by Ghali's entry into Spain for medical reasons, Rabat called the Spanish ambassador in Morocco to express his discomfort at the situation.

After the massive entry of thousands of people in Ceuta, Rabat decided to summon the ambassador to Spain for consultations.

He did not return to our country until a few weeks ago, on March 20 of this year, when Pedro Sánchez's move on Western Sahara served to put relations with Morocco back on track.

As a consequence, it was Algeria that decided to withdraw its ambassador from our country.

pardons

Just a few weeks after the migration crisis in Ceuta, the Government approved the pardons of the independence movement leaders convicted of sedition and embezzlement.

This situation was understood by the opposition as a gesture by the coalition Executive towards its pro-independence partners, with whom it forms a majority block in Congress and on whom Pedro Sánchez reports parliamentarily.

Precisely the then Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, suffered a hacking attack in 2020, as published this Monday by this newspaper.

In that case, suspicions pointed to Russia or China as the perpetrators of this external attack.

Now, the announcement of this infection occurs just days after an international investigation published that around 60 leaders of the Catalan and Basque independence movement were spied on through the Pegasus program in recent years, facts for which they are calling for the resignation of the Minister Oaks.

Macron, objective

On the other hand, weeks later the name of Pegasus ceased to be unknown.

Various international journalistic investigations brought to light that leaders of several countries were targets of being attacked by Pegasus.

Among them, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, as well as his entire government leadership, as published in July 2021.

Rabat was considered to be behind this threat, facts branded as false information by the Moroccan kingdom.

King Mohamed VI, in fact, has also appeared as a target of espionage in the published lists.

Other investigations indicate that the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was attacked by this software, although it was pointed out, in this case, that the United Arab Emirates was behind the suspicion.

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